About
Narrative Home II is based on a scene from the 1930 novel As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner. The selected scene, Faulkner describes the family rescuing their mother’s coffin from a burning bar. As revealed in the novel the mother’s coffin becomes a central theme for the home’s design process and meaning.

The home is designed as a split plan, with a private master bedroom wing. A minimal material palette is used with poured in place concrete walls and light weight wood framing above. Over the main living space there are glass skylights that allow light in to beautifully illuminate the interior. The wood framing acts as a trellis casting shadows across the interior living spaces.

Team
Matthew Celmer, Lead Architect & Design
Meaghan Kelly, Research Intern
Tanvi Rao, Research Intern
Hao Zheng, Research Intern

Project Honors
Selected for the International Artists-In-Residence program at the I-Park Foundation

Published in [TRANS-] a non-profit academic journal at the College of Architecture, The University of Arizona

Selected for the Domestic Design panel at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) 108th Annual Meeting